Made it through #Monday? Catch some rye.

Baby, it’s cold outside. Isn’t it nice, then, that spicy rye whiskey has been making a comeback for several years now? asks Incisal Edge spirits columnist Lauren Mowery in the magazine’s winter edition.

“In truth, it’s been a long way back, but rye wasn’t always a dusty, back-shelf has-been. It was America’s most popular pre-Prohibition whiskey, forming the base of such classic cocktails as the Vieux Carré and the Manhattan. Until 1919, Pennsylvania and Maryland dominated U.S. production, but the 18th Amendment effectively killed farm distilleries, and with them the rye tradition.